On Wed, 5 May 2010, James Adcock wrote:
You sound like nothing more than a shrill shill, given shillings for ranting and raving against Apple and the iPad.
Pardon, but I believe *I* expressed *My* opinions (repeated below) in a polite and measured way.
You are not expressing "opinions" you are stating falsehoods. Stop it. I put them in quotes. . .please simply just state "in my opinion this is the equivalent of making people buy at a company store." However, it is NOT making people buy at a company store, and you know it, so please stop saying it is.
I believe I have already acknowledged your "work-arounds" -- I just don't want to have to deal with "work-arounds."
I'm not talking about workarounds, you are simply stating falsehoods. Stop it.
Also, I don't believe it is fair to represent my comments as coming from a "shill" given that I acknowledged the shortcomings of multiple machines.
Read more carefully. . .I did not say you WERE a shill. Don't misquote me to my face, or state falsehoods about iPad. Not here. . .not on our reputation. . .not on our dime.
Also, I can assure you that I am NOT a "shill" and I would appreciate it if you publicly retracted that slander.
Learn to read.
If anything I appear to be the LEAST fanatic and most pragmatic about their choice of reading machine on this forum!
Riiight!
If anyone else goes to the Apple Company Store, tries an iPad and it does what YOU want it to do: THEN BUY IT! I encourage EVERYBODY to go to an Apple Store, try it, and see what they think FOR THEMSELVES! It doesn't do what *I* want it to do, so *I* don't buy it -- I would THINK that wouldn't be very controversial position to take!
Then stop telling them they can only buy at the company store. Simply not true.
Personally I am going to wait till 4.0 and see if its less restrictive then.
Right. I'm not talking about whether they fulfill your desires or not, that is strictly up to you and them, as personal items. I'm talking you making and repeating statements that are false, easily proven false. Stop it, please. You are doing your best/worst to ruin our reputation. You could hardly do better if someone paid you to do that. Once again, I ask you to stop it. I would ask for retractions of your simple false statements, but I have no confidence you are serious about any of these, not from the first where you implied that the iPod Stanza is a good measure of what the iPad can do. You just never answer the direct replies. You are NOT having a conversation here. Please stop. Our CEO and I discussed this at length, both earlier when it first became obvious you were not to be taken seriously, and now when you insist on pretending none of it happened and it starts all over again. So, for the record, if you try to do this all over again you will find you are apt to lose your soapbox. In case that was not obvious, your messages will be moderate or they will be "moderated" for you. People here know just how much I hate doing that, it has had to be done only once before, if you want to be second please just keep it up a bit longer to insure there is no doubt you have utterly no concern for how you reflect on PG. So. . .once again I ask you to please stop with rhetoric and calm down to verified conclusions. Feel free to say you disagree with Apple, or anyone else, if you like, but make sure you state it as opinion at first and not just when you are challenged as to the facts. If/when I say you sound like a shill that is not the same as saying you ARE a shill, but YOU do not even give that leeway as state your opinions as if they were facts. Please stop doing that. No further comments below, to your list of personal desires. You should send your request to the manufacturers, magazines and others who might be able to give you some satisfaction. Enough. . .please. . . . I hope to be thanking you for this in the near future. Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg
HP Slate is rumored to be killed, in which case THAT certainly isn't a solution. (Presumably HP/Palm are now busy retooling to make a "Palm" version of the Slate/iPad, *sigh*)
Que with its relationship with B&N also seems now to have picked up the wifi/3g "virus" of not allowing the owner of the machine to do what they like with their OWN wifi/3g connection. http://www.que.com/
What justification can you think of except trying to force sales through the company store to NOT allow the owner of a BrandX tablet to do the following:
1) Use wifi or 3g to transfer a book they own directly to/from their own computer?
2) Use wifi or 3g to transfer a book from any location they dang well like on the internet?
3) Use wifi or 3g to transfer a book not under DRM to a friend to share?
Again, for comparison, laptops and netbooks have always had these capabilities. Maybe what we need is like cellphones the option of buying "unlocked" ebook readers at a higher price!?
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Jim Adcock wrote:
previous tablets were crude, now that we've seen apple do them _correctly_.
Beg to differ that any tablet is done "correctly" if you pay for wifi/3g but aren't actually allowed to use the wifi/3g to do anything with books but buy from the company store. Kindle/Nook/iPad all suffer from restrictions on wireless transmission in an attempt by the hardware mfg to tie you to their company store. Netbooks, for example, do no suffer from this restriction. Toshiba Portege doesn't have the restriction, but at $1300 is a *bit* pricy for a reader, not to mention 5 lb vs. 1 lb for a DX.
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